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Marco received today his scorebook from the Working Dutch Shepherd Association (thanks Les)!

The South Florida Schutzhund Club (DVG) has a trial in November and Marco and I want to enter and get his BH. And we are already working on the exercises of SCH (IPO) I. Marco seems to like tracking the most (might have to do with the cooked chicken breast ) It would be such a great accomplishment for my "pound puppy" to have a Schutzhund title. range:

AWESOME and congrats!!! We get all of our scorebooks through WDSA too! Love to support the locals who are promoting our working beasts! Can't wait to hear! Want to come to TN and track my kids???? Please......

Awesome! Good luck with your BH next month!

That's great!! good luck to Marco.

Woohoo! Pretty exciting stuff!

Don't exactly know what the scorebook is, but sounds exciting!!

Thats great! It is so exciting, I remember when Thalie got her Brevet in Ring, I felt so good.

good luck with the BH examn!
Do you also have the new rules? Wait for sit and down etc? Makes it much easier, bit strange since in IPO-1 you have to walk on anyway

Marjolein wrote:good luck with the BH examn!
Do you also have the new rules? Wait for sit and down etc? Makes it much easier, bit strange since in IPO-1 you have to walk on anyway

Thanks, we really need it!

Last night we trained at the actual trial location exactly to trial rules and Marco looked a bit puzzled (may be hang-over from too many bottles of 'black Lab beer' ) when I 'paused' and gave the command SITZ and PLATZ. Why the change if they have to do it for IPO I without the 'pause'.

The location is a CHALLENGE: One plane after the other taking off from Miami International Airport right above us (Marco wasn't bothered but I had to look up all the time - may be looking for the next Lufthansa or Martin Air flight). And the "projects" right next to the long down with dogs running loose occasionally and a feral cat colony.

P.S.: Long down is in German called "Ablegen unter Ablenkung" = down under distraction. Yeah, we got distraction alright!!

Oh, and did I mention the BH part of the trial is taking place on a Friday evening! I just found out myself "so by the way".... I don't know if I get the day off or not. Worsed case scenario, I have two hours to get home from work and to Miami (about 90 miles) in Friday evening rush hour.

Schlussdibusti wrote:Oh, and did I mention the BH part of the trial is taking place on a Friday evening! I just found out myself "so by the way".... I don't know if I get the day off or not. Worsed case scenario, I have two hours to get home from work and to Miami (about 90 miles) in Friday evening rush hour.

Maybe you should get sick around lunchtime or so?

leih merigian wrote: Maybe you should get sick around lunchtime or so?

good plan!

Yeah, I do not get these new rules either...

On the ablegen unter ablenkung, I started at a new club, this is crazy! The trainingfield is right next to this road to the woods, tons of people passing by walking their (barking) dogs, lots of joggers, bikers, cars, and, since it is right next to a riding school, lots of horses. They actually use it to train the horses to be ok with barking dogs, and make the horses watch our schutzdienst The good thing is, Ivil has had no problems with all of that from the start

Marjolein wrote: On the ablegen unter ablenkung, I started at a new club, this is crazy! The trainingfield is right next to this road to the woods, tons of people passing by walking their (barking) dogs, lots of joggers, bikers, cars, and, since it is right next to a riding school, lots of horses. They actually use it to train the horses to be ok with barking dogs, and make the horses watch our schutzdienst The good thing is, Ivil has had no problems with all of that from the start

That's a LOT of distraction. Good job Ivil!! How about Dingo?

Schlussdibusti wrote:

Marjolein wrote: On the ablegen unter ablenkung, I started at a new club, this is crazy! The trainingfield is right next to this road to the woods, tons of people passing by walking their (barking) dogs, lots of joggers, bikers, cars, and, since it is right next to a riding school, lots of horses. They actually use it to train the horses to be ok with barking dogs, and make the horses watch our schutzdienst The good thing is, Ivil has had no problems with all of that from the start

That's a LOT of distraction. Good job Ivil!! How about Dingo?

Dingo does not come along anymore, we do fun stuff at home and tracking, I had trouble shifting from one dog to another because they are so different, and Dingo is 9 and has a back injury due to a fall while searching, so he does not join us do the dogclub most of the time.
He has always stayed down pretty good tho. As a SAR dog this was very important, we used to practice "in-line" drills, where every dog would be called seperately whilst the others right next to it had to stay down, that is quite distracting and I used to go shopping and leave him in a "down" tied to my bike for like 15 min. Never was a problem, even with poeple, dogs, kids etc passing by. So I'm guessing he would be fine too